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Sunday, November 14, 2010

MUSING ABOUT MOVIEMAKING

The making of EDOnism can be defined as a kind of gestation, considering that about 9 months have passed between the first outline and the end of the post-production period. During this arc of time a lot of ideas, coincidences, revelations and unforeseen events contributed to the uniqueness of the movie. It has been a grand scale effort propelled by the target of finalizing a project that at the beginning could sound utopist, if compared to the very limited range of technical and financial resources at our disposal. Although the thematic root of the story derived from the seismic emergency that unfortunately characterized the 2009 here in Abruzzo (that’s still a dramatic issue on these days), the earthquake phenomenon doesn’t represent an excuse to give to the movie a more humanitarian or social appeal, as some documentaries and movies have done after the disaster. Indeed, what interested me most was to give a poetic representation to the link between the inner realm of human soul and the enigmatic exterior world, a theme that has been often at the core of my previous movies (as well as paintings and novels). Somehow the earthquake becomes the symbolic projection of a human interior cataclysm, an extraordinary event subverting the concept of reality, slowly getting wider proportions and involving the entire community of a city. Tokyo provided a colossal set to the movie, an emotive environment that neither digital effects nor scenography will ever be able to reproduce with the same visual power, offering the perfect physical backdrop to the metaphysical journey of the protagonist. Indeed its breathtaking amount of details properly evoked the hyper realistic visionary ambiance that I imagined while I was writing the script.
I’d like to dedicate Edonism not only to all the victims of earthquakes, but also to the people still trying to restore their humanity among the ruins of their soul.

AFAN Displate

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THE MULTIMEDIANIC ARTIST

Alessandro Fantini was born in 1978 in Sangro Valley, Italy. His
creative inclination arose during his early childhood when he began
drawing comics and writing tales influenced by gothic authors like Edgar
Allan Poe and Sheridan le Fanu. Disliking art school teachings, he
learned oil painting techniques by himself and started painting his
first canvases in 1993. During the nineties he developed his own
visionary style blending the surrealist attitude with hyperrealism and
Flemish painting methods. In 2002 he graduated with first class honours
in modern literature with a thesis about the relationship between
Italian culture and the PreRaphaelism.

Since 1998 he wrote,
directed and produced movies and music videos digitally, composing also
their soundtracks and writing lyrics for songs performed by himself. His
short movies "Tiranti Transit" and "The road to Shakti" were
broadcasted in 2006 and 2007 on European Sky Channels. He wrote and
illustrated the book "The Night's Veil"(2006) and the dark-fantasy novel
"Endometria"(2007) both published by Liberodiscrivere and presented at
the International Turin book fair. His self-portrait was published in
2004 inside the Jean Michel Jarre's "Aero" album booklet. His artworks
have been shown in several group exhibitions and solo exhibitions in
Pescara, Turin, at the London Brick Lane Gallery, Dorothy Circus Gallery and Old Pasadena, USA.

In 2008 he released his first art book entitled "The Sinovial Gaze" covering more than a decade of painting activity.In 2009 he directed and animated the music video of the international jazz musician Lorenzo Tucci's hit "The Sky".In 2010 he directed the feature movie "EDOnism" filmed in Tokyo and produced by Lorenzo Fantini.In 2011 he conceived, directed, animated, and edited the music video of the original Lorenzo Tucci's song "Hope".